Recent Design Work: Business Cards & Mixtape Inserts

Brooklyns Best Photography Business Card - Design by ArtDeal Designs

More and more I am seeing my friends discovering their passions and actually doing something about it. It brings a smile to my face and joy when I get to play a little supporting role. There’s nothing like a good support team. They should be someone that can provide a shoulder to lean (or cry) [...]

10 Ways to Start your Freelance Web or Graphic Design Business for under $100

ArtDealDotCom 10 ways to start a freelance design business

What are you waiting for? Stop holding yourself back from following your dream. Start today even with a shoestring budget. I think we hold ourselves back from following our dreams out of fear, lack of knowledge and support. The times are changing and I’m seeing more and more of my friends starting to follow their [...]

It’s finally here…..

It’s finally here……ArtDeal Designs has been launched (beta version). Working on client jobs is way more easier then working on my own stuff. My own projects usually get put on the back burner when there is client work to be done. Well this past weekend I work on nothing else but my portfolio site. I [...]

5 Design Blogs to Check out

I’m always on the hunt for other design blogs to check out. It’s one way I keep update with my field. Today I would like to show some of my most recent finds. Graphic Design Blender – business tips for designers Designers Who Blog – a blog about about blogging designers SpeckyBoy – a Design [...]

Artiatesia Deal: Web/Graphic Designer at your service

Before I got into blogging, I found myself dreaming in code. My very first collection of web pages were on free sites that probably don’t exist anymore. I would fill out a form and the service I was using would created my page based on my answers. I remember two of my High School buddies [...]

Recent Design Work: Brochure Designs for The National League of Students

For those of you would think twitter is just a fad, please think again. During the month of August I participated in a blogging challenge in which one of the assignments was to add a “Hire Me” page to your blog. By doing that simple assignment I receive an email about design two brochures. How [...]

Bizx: Business Card Exchange

Once you have your business designed and in your hands, what are the next steps? Do you think about how to it in as many other hands as possible? You can hand them out at networking events, add one to the bowl at restaurants. Or you can do what I did and participate in a [...]

My graphic and web design New Year Resolutions

Inspired by the article: 51 New Year resolutions for graphic and web designers, I decide to make a list of my own. Some are fro the article but I also came up with a few of my own. 1. Design and code my first WordPress Theme 2. Take up a new hobby that doesn’t involved [...]